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Automatic updates are on, so I've been running the current version from the beginning. The mdworker issue usually happens when I'm syncing a large number of files using Smart Sync. It hasn't happened much in the last few weeks, but it also could be that I'm not syncing that many files lately.
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I haven't had any issues for a while now. Not sure what changed.
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zobie: no.
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Leno M. I think the issue is that Spotlight indexing get's held up on a corrupt file (or maybe thinks the Smart Sync files are corrupt) and has to time out on the process before the errors go away. I assume that even though you disabled Dropbox, the MDWORKER is still trying to finish it's process. I found that errors go…
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Installed the new OS update and it's back.
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FYI, by disabling MDWORKER, it also disables Spotlight from conducting searches.
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After using the code above to disable the MDWORKER, it stopped quitting. I enabled it again and it seems to be stable now. Not sure if it just needed to work through everthing or if there was a corrupt file that it got stuck on. Seems ok now, but I'll update if things change.
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Dropbox is done syncing and I restarted, but MDWORKER is still going nuts and unexpectiedly quitting. I found this code to disable the MDWORKER and it is no longer freaking out. I'm not sure what the impact on Spotlight is by disabling MDWORKER. In terminal enter the following to... Disable:sudo launchctl unload -w…
